Conflict over gold mines continues in the Kouri Bogde region, on the border between Chad and Libya, with hundreds reportedly killed, while the government claimed 100 deaths in clashes sparked by conflict between two people who escalated into a “massacre”.
On Sunday, Chadian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Daoud Yahya Ibrahim said that the death toll in the events in the Kuri-Bogdi region had reached about 100 people, another 40 people were injured, and 20 people were arrested and under investigation. .
Chad’s defense minister told AFP on Monday that the clashes took place on May 23 in Kouri Bogoudi, near the Libyan border, and erupted after “a banal quarrel between two people and then developed.” He added that clashes broke out between the miners, as a result of which “about 100 people died and at least 40 were injured.”
The Kuri-Bogodi area is full of mines that are often clandestinely exploited by many gold prospectors from all over the country and from neighboring countries, but the region and climate do not allow the authorities to control these lands. Clashes are constantly taking place in the region between warring tribes whose sons live in Chad, Libya and Sudan. Kouri Bogodi is located in a mountainous area on both sides of the border between Chad and Libya.
